Photos: Research as recreation

Published 8:00 pm, Friday, May 6, 2005

Daily News photos/CHANNING JOHNSON

Bill Sterling climbs a tree searching for evidence of owls along the Tittabawassee flood plain on Dow Chemical Co.'s property Thursday afternoon. The Dow High and Alma College graduate is working for the summer with a team from Michigan State to monitor owls nesting in the area. "You shouldn't even get paid for this," Sterling said. "I'd volunteer for this, no problem."

Matt Zwiernik, left, and Bill Sterling check out a tree Sterling is about to climb to look for evidence of owls inhabiting a nest the Michigan State team installed for the owls.